Facebook and OpenPGP

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

MFPA:
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> On Monday 1 June 2015 at 5:37:33 PM, in
> <mid:20150601183733.3fc5b0c6 at frustcomp.home.hnjs.ch>,
> gnupg-users at henk.geekmail.org wrote:
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> 
>> A comment worth reading in case one does not see it
>> oneself IMHO:
>> https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2015/06/01/facebook-offers-to-send-you-encrypted-emails-this-wont-help-you/
> 
> Whatever Facebook's motivation, doesn't anything that increases the
> proportion of emails that are encrypted during transit count as a Good
> Thing?

Yeah, I think it sets a great precedent for other large organizations to
follow.  Plus it increases the amount of PGP-encrypted email flowing around,
which reduces PGP as a marker for "secret messages".

.hc


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PGP fingerprint: 5E61 C878 0F86 295C E17D  8677 9F0F E587 374B BE81
https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x9F0FE587374BBE81